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It will make you willing to do anything that human nature can do, and endure anything that human nature can suffer, that you may accomplish the same purposes that He came to accomplish, that you may help onward the progress of His glorious kingdom. And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.-I COR. xiii. 13.
But she drew from her bosom a sharp dagger and with the swiftness of lightning aimed a blow at Inga's heart. He merely stood still and smiled, for the blade rebounded and fell clattering to the floor. Then, at last, Queen Cor understood the magic power that had terrified her husband but which she had ridiculed in her ignorance, not believing in it.
The gentle Queen of Pingaree and all her women, together with the captured children, were given to Queen Cor, who set them to work in her grain fields. Then the rulers and warriors of these dreadful islands thought they had done forever with Pingaree.
That is exactly what the apostle does, in that same chapter in 2 Cor., to which I already referred.
2 Cor. ii. 11: "Non enim ignoramus cogitationes ejus." Ch. xxvii. section 4. See Inner Fortress, vi. ch. iv. section 12. Way of Perfection, ch. lxv. section 2; but ch. xxxvi. of the previous editions. See ch. x. section 10. Ch. xiii. section 3. Ch. xx. section 38. Ch. xxx. section 25.
It is well if this bring thee to bless God for the success of others, because hereby his grace is glorified, 1 Cor. xii. 26. Therefore, 5. Let this satisfy us, That he is the Lord, who doeth what he will in heaven and in earth, and may dispose of us as he will, and make of us what he will, for his own glory.
By Scripture, which is wont to give to them whom Christ intrusts with his government, such names and titles as have rule, authority, and government engraven upon them: as overseers, Acts xx. 28; governments, 1 Cor. xii. 28; rulers, 1 Tim. v. 17, and Rom. xii. 8; with divers others, as after will appear in Chap.
This feast was set for the warriors in the grounds of King Gos's palace, while with them in the great throne room all the captains and leaders of the fighting men were assembled with King Gos and Queen Cor, who had come from her island to attend the ceremony.
ACTS xvii. 28. "I will praise Thee: for I am fearfully and wonderfully made." PSALM cxxxix. 14. "Ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body." 1 COR. vi. 20.
Thus in case of the maintenance of ministers under the New Testament: the apostle proves it by consequence to be commanded, God hath ordained, &c., from God's command of not muzzling the ox that treads out the corn, and of maintaining the priests under the Old Testament, 1 Cor. ix. 14, &c.; l Tim. v. 17, 18.
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